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1) Questions and Answers : Macintosh : running hot
Message 2821
Posted 3 Sep 2004 by old_user10811
I have this problem on an Apple 12" PowerBook G4. I guess once the system sees a high load on the CPU it starts the fan *before* the CPU gets too hot. However my system 'idles' at around 45.3 deg C and with a high load shoots to 55.9 deg C in a few seconds. I've not left it running for long periods under full load simply for this reason.

A useful feature would be to have a way to limit the CPU usage* for the client - say 'Limit load to 25% of CPU', I know this will effectively lower the computational power of the system but would help for those of us who don't want to cook our lunch on our machines!

*apologies if this feature exists and this is a case of RTFM.


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